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Entrance to Far Niente Winery. Far Niente Winery is a winery based in Oakville, California, located within the Oakville AVA appellation. It was founded in 1885 by John Benson, but abandoned during Prohibition in 1919. The property was restored by Gil Nickel in 1979. The winery now produces wines from Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay. [1]
In 1979, he purchased the historic Far Niente Winery in Oakville, which had been established in 1885 by John Benson, a '49er of the Californian gold rush and uncle of the famous American impressionist painter Winslow Homer. The winery was in disrepair having been abandoned 60 years previously during Prohibition and Nickel spent three years ...
July 16, 1987 (1160 Oak Knoll Ave. Napa: 17: Far Niente Winery: Far Niente Winery: February 28, 1979 (South of Oakville at 1577 Oakville Grade: Oakville: 18
The winery was founded in 1879 by a Finnish Sea Captain Gustave Niebaum. Niebaum's employee Hamden McIntyre was not an architect but he designed gravity flow wineries for Inglenook and Far Niente along with other wineries of the decade. [1] Niebaum died in 1908 and the winery was shut down during Prohibition.
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Far Niente Winery caves now encompass about 40,000 sq ft (3,700 m 2). In 1991, Condor Earth Technologies Inc. joined with Alf Burtleson on the design and construction of the elaborate Jarvis Wine Cave project. Over 45,000 sq ft (4,200 m 2) of underground winery and cave space was constructed, with cave spans exceeding 85 ft (25.5 m) in width ...
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In May 2008, the Far Niente Winery in Oakville, California, installed 994 solar PV modules with a total capacity of 175 kW onto 130 pontoons and floating them on the winery's irrigation pond. [ 9 ] [ 20 ] Several small-scale floating PV farms were built over the next seven years.